[apl002]

All I can is, as a RN Developer, I love it. I love being able to use 1 language for both app platforms. The RN community is amazing. Many of the comments here talking about outdated packages were likely burned by RNs early days when it was <0.40. RN has come along way since then. Its been a while since I ran into an issue updating packages or couldn't find a lib for something I needed. There is also great resources when you want to handroll something yourself.

Migrating an existing native stack to RN might not be the answer, but anyone looking to get their startup off the group should consider RN. Its fast development and converting a React web dev is super easy.

[tannedNerd]

And I as a mobile native developer for both android and iOS on the other hand now know to skip talking with Shopify for future jobs as I hate RN and the performance hits and non standard UI it introduces. So we both win!

[tekstar]

The sad thing is, all* their tier 1 mobile apps are still ios/android native and are not going to be rewritten, so they still need native devs. But after this blog post native devs will be a lot harder for them to find and hire.

* except for POS for Android which apparently has been rewritten, but not yet released, in RN.